Under Pressure Podcast

Under Pressure Podcast

Project Overview

Coming spring 2017, Under Pressure is a near future podcast about life aboard the underwater research station Amphitrite featuring deep sea scholars, love, oblique literature references, and chaotic neutral kraken. You can find more information about the podcast here. To clarify: this is a paid gig, but it's more of a "20 bucks and a beer" type situation than a full time acting job.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Phaedra Aspros
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Seeking African American Voice Actor.  Aspros is the Captain of the station, a cross between [stage] manager and fort operator. She’s in her 40s, and retired from the navy when she and her husband fell in love with another woman before DADT was repealed, though she still very much feels the call of the sea. 

  • Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all others… a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as Pacific.

    (from James Michener’s Hawaii)

  • I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting.

    (from James Michener’s South Pacific)

  • In addition to the reading, we'd like for you to describe what exactly the character does aboard the Amphitrite

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Jack Vernon
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Character Bio: Jack is kind of an asshole. He’s in his mid twenties, was born and raised in Australia, and was a mechanic for a Royal Australian Navy sub before punting out. He was picked up by the company that runs the station, by way of Phaedra, and now he maintains the station (electrical, heating, plumbing, any problems easily solvable on the outside) for two year stints. Jack probably owns a trilby, and definitely has an active reddit account.

Additional Note: While not a terribly good guy, Jack will undoubtedly be a fun role to play. He is fairly antagonistic and therefore interesting character, even if he is morally reprehensible. Jack is also going to have an increased role in Season 2 (assuming that S1 is popular enough for us to continue) so it’s a role with legs. We are also open to not having an Australian accent, though it is preferred

  • Reading Sample: Home is my apartment on the east side of Hell-Roaring Creek, three rooms where I have to open the closets and drawers to be sure I’m in the right place. Home? Try a motel bar at eleven o’clock on a Sunday night, my silence shared by a pretty bar maid who thinks I’m a creep and some asshole in a plastic jacket who thinks I’m his buddy. like I told Trahearne, home is where you hang your hangover. For folks like me, anyway. Sometimes. other times, home is my five acres up beyond Polebridge on the North Fork, thirty-nine dirt-road miles north of the falls and the nearest bar, ten miles south of the border. There’s an unfinished cabin there, a foundation and subflooring and a rock fireplace, and wherever home might be, I had been up on the North Fork for a week or so when Trahearne found me.

    I was working. On my tan and late afternoon buzz. It had been a dry spring, and I saw the plume of dust rising like a column of smoke the minutes before i saw the VW beetle convertible that had caused it as it charged through the chug-holes like a midget tank. It skidded into my road and braked to a stop about six inches from a stack of stripped logs. Through the being fog of dust Trahearne looked like a man wearing a bathtub that was too small for his butt.

    (from James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss)

  • In addition to the reading, we'd like for you to describe what exactly the character does aboard the Amphitrite

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Hamish Turin
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Character Bio: Hamish Turin is a mid forties Vulcanologist and Tectonic Physicist who has never lived in one place longer than he’s lived on the station, though he spent a fair amount of time in (and intends to retire to) Hawai’i. His family hails from Scotland, and he has one sister and a niece left living. Hamish has been in a relationship exactly one time before deciding that it just wasn’t for him, but he’s close to his remaining relations.


No particular accent required; non-American accent preferred.

  • Reading Sample: “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holymen” and he would have meant the same thing.”

    (from John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row)

  • In addition to the reading, we'd like for you to describe what exactly the character does aboard the Amphitrite

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